Scientists explain how the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism copied the moon's changing speed without modern technology

In the second century BC, the Antikythera Mechanism astounded ancient astronomers with its ability to imitate the Moon's ...
Artnet

A New Study Shakes Up Our Understanding of the World’s First Analog Computer

Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant for antiquity. A ...
SpaceNews

Recreating A Mechanical Cosmos For The Antikythera Mechanism, The World’s First Computer

Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to ...
CounterPunch

Why Was the Antikythera Mechanism So Far Ahead of its Time?

In its November 2023 issue, the Website Grunge assumed that certain science questions “won’t be answered in the next 50 years.” One of those questions was about the Antikythera Mechanism. The writer, ...
The Conversation

What Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gets right (and very wrong) about the historical Antikythera Mechanism

At the heart of the newest film in the Indiana Jones series lies “an ancient hunk of gears”. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is based around the Antikythera Mechanism: an actual ancient Greek ...